पचना پچنا ♣ Eng. cook, cuisine

पचना پچنا ♣ Eng. cook, cuisine

[pacnā], v.i. to be digested.

[◀MIA: Pk. paccamāṇa- pres. part.; Pa. paccati ‘is boiled’ ◀OIA pacyátē ‘is cooked, is digested’ RV., pácyatē ‘becomes ripe’ RV. <√pac ‘cook’ ◀PIE *pekʷ- ‘to cook, to bake; to ripen’] ♣[=PIE▶∙∙∙→Eng. cook, cuisine, kitchen, biscuit, pumpkin ]

☞ (Platts, 1884) 0230; (Turner, 1966) 7654, p.431; (Pali-Eng., 1925) 383; (MW, 1899) 0575; (Pokorny, 1959) 0798; (Mayrhofer, 1986-2001) 2.064